Going back to '96 again folks to tell you what happened to Scooter when he got back from the GAT release at Flag.
I got back to Sydney and had to get ready for the local event. We were picked up at the airport after over a day in transit and taken straight to the org to get busy. It all happened in the usual “it-all-had-to-be-done-yesterday” fashion and then there was to be the frenzy of selling to the public all the new courses etc. etc.. For the staff, it meant long nights of drilling prior to the event then late nights writing compliance reports to management or having to watch the event again and again because it apparently “hadn’t been duplicated” because it hadn’t provided the miracles it supposedly should have. The event came and went in a blur of sleep deprivation – the reception locally wasn’t anywhere near as enthusiastic as it had been at Flag.
I also now had a new senior – a young SO girl (16 at the most) had been posted as the Senior C/S Chief and had no training to speak of yet was now to run all the Senior C/Ses in Australia and New Zealand. She had a constant stream of orders to go look at the academy and find what was wrong there and she nagged me incessantly about the huge amounts of program targets I HAD to get done every week. I literally spent hours getting “evidence” that I’d done something that took minutes to do – it was insane. It had nothing to do with making a better world. I’d worked for government offices before and they’d been models of efficiency compared to this nightmare. And I HAD to be part of all the org’s management committees too – and they mostly met outside org hours.
I finally got to turn it all over to the org’s Senior C/S after about a month as he’d been “handled” to sign a new staff contract. So I went back to the comfortable obscurity of my usual job and he copped all the flack. But the “miracle” of GAT (as Golden Age of Tech soon got abbreviated to) wasn’t immediately happening. Within six weeks all staff were ordered to a “meter check” and it was obvious to me it wasn’t working. It wasn’t “out-Ethics” stopping these programs going in – it was the sheer volume of what had to be done per these programs that nobody had the time to do any of it.
Within two weeks of that, we were all ordered to stay back after post and watch the event video again. And again. And again. Three times through was the order. So three nights in a row
Two weeks later the order came down again – all staff to watch the video three times through again.
I’d been co-auditing with Tracey, an auditor from the Day org and she was having a really hard time of it on her post. Every tech-trained staff member on the planet had been ordered to do all the new training. Initially it was to be gotten done on our “usual” study time – which for many was non-existent. As staff pay was so poor in every org that I knew about, for anyone who wasn’t living with parents like me had to be working a second job just to pay rent and food. So how the hell do you fit in extra time to study? Tracey had two kids of school age and a husband who ran his own business repairing roofs – how on earth was she supposed to fit this into her life? It meant the end of us auditing each other as we now had to be on study every “spare” moment.
The answer came allegedly from Miscavige himself – all Tech staff were ordered onto study for five hours a day – no exceptions. I now was spending all of my time in the org, either studying or on post. Several people who had kids were forced to leave staff as they just couldn’t cope with this new insane demand. And, just to further apply the blowtorch to the belly, the events just kept coming. More and more programs were being added to the nightmare for the tech staff and we were still being ordered to watch the original event yet again – it seemed like every three months or so at the most we’d all have to stay back yet again to watch it three times all the way through. And then the compliance reports would be written and it all sent off up the lines to management and then three months later it would be ordered again that all staff had to watch the event yet again.
Not surprisingly my parents were getting upset about never seeing me. I certainly had no time to do the usual things I’d been doing like mow the lawns for my dad – if I had any time at all I was sleeping in. I was still doing nightwatches for the org every three weeks on the average. Plus I was auditing Taiwanese in the org for money during the day and getting that in was getting harder too – I was getting incredibly sleepy auditing people whose command of English was terrible and I could barely understand them. Add to that the Taiwanese were from a much warmer country and needed to have heaters blazing at all times just to feel comfortable.
I was still auditing OT staff whenever I could – I somehow managed to do this by starting them in the late afternoons and “having” to be late getting to the org for my usual job at night. It made me unpopular with the org executives but, as I was auditing quite a few CLO staff, I had “air cover” from CLO who were senior to my seniors in the pecking order. There was more than a hint of satisfaction for me being able to stick it to the petticoat mafia like this and get away with it.
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Hopefully I'll get more done tonight for you.
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